These are what we call the 'YMMV items.' Things that some people find in this work. We call them 'your mileage might vary' because not everyone sees these things in the same way. This starts discussions in the trope lists, a thing we don't want. Please use the discussion page if you'd like to discuss any of these items.
YMMV: Trigun
Alas, Poor Villain: The manga really goes to great lengths if not to humanize the villains, then to make the readers understand their motivations and grief.
Big Lipped Alligator Moment: There's a moment in Trigun Maximum where Vash and Livio are counting the coins they got from the Gung-ho guns. They were missing one. Suddenly, a muscular black guy with weird hair and skimpy disco attire comes in and gives them the coin, pulls a bug out of his mouth, then proceeds to ask whether Vash or Livio prefer clams or fish. Granted, there's a reason why this happened (Zazie used her mind control worms), but it's random, it's weird, and after the incident, nobody talks about it again.
Contemplate Our Navels: Knives; Legato; Livio to a large extent; most of the Gung-Ho Guns. Vash mostly escapes this trend through frantic goofball action, though he has understandable moments of this too.
In the anime, the battle of Vash and Knives in the final episode.
In the manga, Wolfwood vs Livio, Chapel and Razlo. All of it.
Crowning Music of Awesome: H.T, as well it should be — Tsuneo Imahori (the musician responible for the aforementioned awesomeness ) is also one of the lead guitarists in The Seatbelts.
Cry For The Devil: In the manga, some of the "Knives chapters" seem to express almost too much sympathy towards him, it even feels like Nightow identifies the most with his point of view at times. Your Mileage May Vary, of course.
Draco in Leather Pants: Almost too many to count. Legato makes fangirls pass out all over the place (even though he's gay, and was even a gigolo — only in the manga, though). Knives has a fervent fandom too.
especially when it's implied that they're both cannibals.
Fan Wank: Not as bad as in other fandoms, but still pretty bad at times.
"Funny Aneurysm" Moment: When someone says that the cross Wolfwood carries on his back is heavy he replies "That's because it's full of mercy!" Later on, that line becomes a bit sinister.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Trigun is ridiculously popular in America, but not quite as much in its homeland of Japan. Because of this, the movie premiered at Sakuracon 2010, months before the Japanese premiere.
Iron Woobie: Vash, apparently. Seriously, nothing is allowed to go right in his life, and he loses everything and takes it very much on his own head whenever anyone gets hurt on a half-civilized planet with almost no natural resources and loads of guns. And it took him over a hundred years to briefly give up.
It Was His Sled: Most of the anime's big twists have long since passed into common knowledge in the English-speaking anime community by now, to the extent that when [adult swim] chose one episode to air for their 2012 April Fool's Day Toonami block, it was the one where Wolfwood dies.
Moe: Let's face it, Vash is a very Moe character. You just have to see the visceral Squees he seems to trigger all over the fandom.
Narm Charm: Debatable too — Vash and Knives's whining pathetic ways of arguing about their very extreme ideologies bring out their emotional immaturity, as they can't seem to get more nuanced than "everybody is good vs. everybody is evil."
A lot, especially with Legato and the sense of impending apocalypse.
Legato mind controls a group of forty or so normal people to crawl into a small trailer via a hole in the top. Seems innocuous at first...until you notice the trailer can't fit forty people. The results are...unpleasant.
The anime has him mind controlling one man and forcing him to shove his own hand into his chest cavity.
Although, especially in the anime, there are people who come away convinced that somebody as sociopathic as Knives should be put down like any other rabid animal and so see Vash letting him live as Vash's biggest What an Idiot moment.
After Wolfwood's death, Vash is eating donuts in a lively, ordinary town, remarking at how wonderful being alive is and at all the people. He then suddenly breaks down in tears as he thinks of all the horrible things that have happened to him, as well as the fact that many of his friends are now dead. And then Legato shows up.
Some parents consider this to be an anime for teens ages 15-16 when it's more specifically created for kids around their early teens. Some people do consider this anime for kids, but since it's aimed at kids a little younger compared to Cowboy Bebop, it could also be for a preteenage group.
